Gratitude & Journal Habit Immersion Training Course — Happy Life Habits

Gratitude & Journal Habit Immersion Training Course

Life can be challenging, uncertain and complex at times. We may face stress, job loss, relationship changes, loneliness, grief or setbacks on our goals or sense of direction. This can lead to feeling low, anxious, depressed and unmotivated. Resulting in physical, mental and emotional symptoms such as lack of sleep, energy, focus, connection and joy.

In just 10 minutes a day we can change this.

I’m Shaileen Shah, a Happiness Coach, Speaker and Trainer and have experienced these. One of the practices that science says and certainly has been my experience for better mental and emotional wellbeing is the practice of gratitude and journaling. 

In fact Gratitude Journaling each day can lead to 

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  • more than 10% increase in long term wellbeing

  • lower depressive symptoms - be happier, more optimistic, hopeful

  • Increase our quantity and quality of sleep

  • Help us focus and be more productive

  • Aid in working towards our goals

  • Be resilient to life’s challenges

  • Have greater life satisfaction and feel connected 

The world is on a negative bias so we have to actively develop positive habits to help us counter this. We need 3 positive thoughts/experiences to counter the effects of one negative one.

When you do a search on how to be positive or happy, almost every article has the practice of gratitude on the list, often near the top. Gratitude can help shift our mood, amplify the good we already have and give hope to a better future.


The Training Course

During the start of the pandemic in 2020 Happy Life Habits launched the 30 Day Gratitude & Journal Habit Immersion Training Course that has positively impacted many and provided much value.

Designed for busy people to develop positive habits and structured routines in 10 minutes a day positively impacting their happiness, wellbeing and productivity. Each and every day.

At the start and end of the training course we measure your gratitude levels to enable you to see the progress you have made during the 30 Days.

We take a gentle, step by step, supported approach to create an environment for successfully developing the skills and habits over the 30 Days. Adding new knowledge, insights, practices and skill development each week.

“The Happy Life Habits course is tailor made for people with limited time who want more happiness in their lives. The course is informative and practical, while Shaileen (the course leader) makes it fun and easy for everyone to participate and enjoy. The five minute journal is a simple, yet effective, tool to help find the positives and to be grateful for the things in daily life that are sometimes easy to overlook or take for granted.”
— Gary Herbert, New Schools Overseer / Project Manager, Department of Education.

The Journal 

The Happiness Journal

We develop morning and evening routines using a lovely hardback happiness journal (The 5 Minute Journal) provided as part of the course.

The journal has been used by Tim Ferris, Emma Watson and me, Shaileen Shah since 2016. 

The journal has 5 science backed positive psychology practices - 3 for the morning and 2 for the evening that shift our mood, provide focus and let us bring our best to the day.

It also has daily positive quotes and weekly challenges.

Habit Development 

Our first of 4 Zoom live calls is the 90 min Journal Workshop where we teach you about and actually get started on habit development using the journal to establish the daily morning and evening routines using best practices for success.

The habit development is using material learnt from :

  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey

  • Atomic Habits - James Clear

  • Tiny Habits - BJ Fogg

  • The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg

  • The Compound Effect - Darren Hardy

  • The Slight Edge - Jeff Olson

  • How to develop better habits in 2019 - Ryan Holiday

  • Heroic Optimize 

  • and more

Accountability

There is built-in accountability where each day you send your journal entries to me via WhatsApp and I’ll provide feedback, suggestions and guidance to improve.

Live Calls

After the Journal Workshop Live Zoom Call the following weeks have Live Zoom calls concluding in the final week with a Celebration Call. 

Each of the Live calls provides the opportunity to ask questions and share what is working and what is challenging. We share new insights, activities and enhancements to continue developing the habits and routines. In between the weekly Zoom calls the WhatsApp accountability and support continues.

Gratitude and love always for sharing and allowing me to be part of HLH community, it has been very beneficial and to use the skills I have learnt and still on the journey of discovering.
I have found doing the journal has allowed me to explore my feelings, emotions, thoughts to what is life and what matters to be happy. I know most of us are driven by money and sadly this makes us more stressed and unhappy as we forget to pursue our dreams and ambitions in the pursuit of material things.
— Indira Halai - Dental Hygienist, Yoga Teacher, HLH Course Graduate

The Daily Practice

Each of the Live calls is recorded and made available in a dedicated private Facebook Group allowing you to review the session or catch up if you missed it. An important part of the training course is the daily practice in the private Facebook group.

The Daily Practice

Starting on the 1st of the month there is a daily gratitude on a particular theme for you to answer. Each week will build up to more gratitude to share covering a variety of themes to enhance your practice. The benefits are daily discipline, progressive development and learning from each other plus past course alumni participating to widen your perspective.

Bonus videos and articles are shared to deepen your learning experience and provide inspiration.

Who attends 

Attendees have come from sectors/roles such as:

  • Medical field (doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses)

  • Finance (accountants, financial advisors, insurance brokers, investors, will writers, debt solutions)

  • Law, Technology, Education, Publishing, Health ( Yoga instructor, Personal Trainer, Chiropractor)

  • Government, Charities (Mind), FTSE and Fortune 500 companies, Start ups

  • Retirees, home makers, Chocolatier, Cake maker, Carers

  • Corporate professionals, small/medium business owners, entrepreneurs, Managers

  • Experiencing challenge and change such as job loss, redundancy, role change, relationship changes, health challenges, grief from loss and the pandemic

Those who want to 

  • Choose to be happier more consistently

  • Build positivity, resilience and self care practices

  • Improve their wellbeing in particular mental and emotional

  • Have improved sleep, focus and productivity

  • Learn something new and grow in their development

  • Develop positive habits and use tools that can serve them throughout their life

  • Deal better with challenges and changes

  • Cope better with depression, grief, feeling low

  • Deepen their existing gratitude practice and routines

  • Be already happy and satisfied and wish to maintain that

  • Work towards goals, have life satisfaction and feel connected

Your Commitment

  • Daily activity of 10 mins in the morning and 10 mins in the evening

  • Journal workshop -  Live 1 x 90 mins (online)

  • Attendance to 2 x 60 mins Live Coaching Calls (online)

  • Attend 1 x 60 mins Live Celebration Call /Lunch (TBC)

Happy Life Habits is a Business for Good

If you or you know someone who may benefit from the Training Course but at the current moment are not able to due to financial reasons then the Pay It Forward Fund can help. As the name says Pay It Forward is someone having paid before to allow this opportunity.

The Training Course comes with a satisfaction guarantee if you feel value was not delivered.


Terence shares how the course has helped him cope with depression, add to routine via the habits, shift mindset and have a greater sense of connection.


Pay it Forward Fund

A sponsored or part sponsored space on the excellent, life changing, mind shifting 30 Day Happy Life Habits Gratitude & Journal Habit Immersion Training Course (worth £150+).

As a Happiness Coach, Speaker and Trainer I have experienced Mental Health challenges such as stress, grief, loneliness, etc. One of the practices that science says and certainly has been my experience for better mental and emotional wellbeing is the practice of gratitude and journaling.

That is why during the start of the pandemic in 2020 we launched the 30 Day training course that has positively impacted many. There are many benefits that I can't list here but refer you to the dedicated web page for the course.

Through some generous seed funding from my old badminton club, Sonal Dave and others who see the benefits of the work we do have a small Pay It Forward fund.

If you or you know someone who may benefit from the Training Course but at the current moment are not able to due to financial reasons then the Pay It Forward Fund can help. As the name says Pay It Forward is someone having paid before to allow this opportunity. If you do take up the Pay It Forward funding we hope that when circumstances change for you that you are able to help Pay It Forward for someone else.

On registration form in the referral code put "Pay It Forward Fund" if you want to request use of the fund.


Do you want these benefits?

“I’ve just completed the Happiness and Gratitude training programme that Shaileen hosted.
We all ‘know’ what to do and how to ‘be’ happy, positive and grateful but it’s not always something that’s at the forefront of our minds when we are in the day to day of our lives. I booked on this course back in November as something to look forward to for the start of the year.

Alongside Shaileens’ great questions and coaching support, there was a daily journal to complete.

The whole programme was really, really good. My mindset has grown stronger as a result of the course and for anyone who wants some MH (Mental Health) support, to be able to see the ‘wood for the trees’ or like me, just wants to spend a bit of time focussing on the ‘haves’ vs the ‘have nots’ - this is for you.

I highly recommend it to you and to anyone who supports MH in the workplace. It’s fabulous.”
— Mandy Ward - Book Structure lady helping you get your book off to a flying start. I sit on the writing bus with you until your book is done | Book Structure | 1 Stop Shop Book Creation | Author | Mentor | #WriteMyBook

Here is what our customers say

4.9
40 reviews
3 years ago
Shaileen has a lovely way of getting people to mix and open up, and really helps us to explore ourselves. We had lovely discussions and really found a proactive way to uplift my happiness/ gratitud...
Sonal Mehta
Sonal Mehta
2 years ago
It was such a pleasure working with Shaileen! He is so professional and to the point and we very much enjoyed his presentation!
Jenny Anagnostopoulou
Jenny Anagnostopoulou
3 years ago
Really enjoyed this course - would recommend for all ages! A great step through of habits and happiness, explaining the science behind it and very tangible things you can do. Shaileen provided a in...
Rani Mehta
Rani Mehta
1 year ago
Shaileen is very personable, and a pleasure to work with. His passion for assisting with others is infectious and he is very dedicating in coaching, always providing helpful material and informatio...
Rahima Delvero
Rahima Delvero
3 years ago
I was invited to join the course unexpectedly, so was not looking to join and had no expectations. Finding time to write the journal was initially a challenge at the start of the day and was helped...
Martine Drake
Martine Drake
3 years ago
I recently attended the Gratitude and Journal Habit Course which was held over the space of four weeks. It is an excellent course to help one build the journal habit which in turn leads to practic...
Shef Mehta
Shef Mehta
3 years ago
On Gratitude course: really great course, taught you how to get into and sustain a new habit, showed you how you spent your time! And which things you are thinking about both of which can be quite ...
sejal h
sejal h
3 years ago
The Inspiration Point Series 3 was astounding. I learned something new and interesting from the speakers, from favourite quotes and books to daily inspiring habits. I eagerly look forward to the ne...
Hansa Pankhania
Hansa Pankhania
3 years ago
Shaileen recently hosted a talk which we attended and it was very educating and brought home the practise of Gratitude. Thank you Shaileen for the wonderful talk.
Chandan Nishal
Chandan Nishal
2 years ago
We had Shaileen who came to give a talk on Positive grief and it was a huge success. He delivered it well and made it easy to understand. His insight was an eye opener and a new perspective. Thank...
Malini vissandjee
Malini vissandjee
3 years ago
Great tips and ways of looking at things differently. Really appreciated the personal experience.
Minal Shah
Minal Shah
3 years ago
Shaileen is very knowledgeable and passionate about his work. I undertook his gratitude course last year which was very well structured and provided great daily support.
Ketan Shah
Ketan Shah
3 years ago
Dear Shaileen, I attended the journal course which i found very helpful. I believe being positive is very healthy for our minds, body and soul, this course gives a great insight into this. I atten...
Khilan Shah
Khilan Shah
3 years ago
I attended the course back in Nov 2020 and since then have been completing the daily journal every day. There are some days missed however i have tried getting back into it and not leaving many day...
Nishal Shah
Nishal Shah
2 years ago
30 Day Gratitude & Journal Habit Immersion Course - Doing the gratitude course was really great. I was enthusiastic about doing this course and it didn't disappoint. Shaileen is really friendly an...
Kamal Karimullah
Kamal Karimullah
2 years ago
This was a lovely event. Well organised and great speakers. Loved the platform which gave you the ability to roam around like it was a real life festival ..... gave you the freedom to explore 🤩
Janvika Shah
Janvika Shah
3 years ago
At the outset of the course and as recommended by my coach, I set myself some objectives. I have been able to advance each of those objectives, to greater or lesser extent, and am moving forward. I...
Terence GRADY
Terence GRADY
2 years ago
Master Mind Group Joining the Mastermind Group enabled me to be among like-minded people who all wanted to learn new things and improve their lifestyle. I enjoyed the discussions which were inspir...
Pragna Shah
Pragna Shah
1 year ago
Mental health awareness week 2023z It was a wonderful one week of recieving very helpful messages. A big thank you.🙏
nipa mehta
nipa mehta
3 years ago
I kept on learning new things, making new friends along the way and being a helpful person. Everyone can achieve something new along their way, no matter how busy you are. As the saying goes "Every...
Parul Shah
Parul Shah
3 years ago
The Inspiration point podcasts were very inspirational. All the people interviewed had some amazing stories about their life journey's I learnt various tools that the people interviewed had shared ...
Nilesh Shah
Nilesh Shah
2 years ago
Master Mind Group In 2021 I joined the Mastermind group where it enhanced my own personal development and learnt some techniques to optimise my learning and energy which were put in practise as we...
Reshna Shah
Reshna Shah
3 years ago
Title: 30 Day Gratitude and Journal Immersion Course Shaileen, thanks very much for the gratitude course. Doing the course and daily practice has definitely made me be a lot more aware of having g...
TejasUdani1
TejasUdani1
3 years ago
This course delivers. Who doesn't want to have happy habits? The journal is critical but the learning on the course is crucial to the mindset applied in how to use the journal. It's a fun course an...
Devi Savla
Devi Savla
1 year ago
I attended the gratitude course 2nd time around and it was a great refresher into journalling and practicing gratitude on a daily process. An added benefit was that it got me prioritising some me t...
Kirpa Gudhka
Kirpa Gudhka
3 years ago
I have attended a few talks/sessions by Happy Life Habits. All of which have given me many takeaways to help improve how I deal with life's challenges and improve my relationships. The recent cours...
Kirpa Gudhka
Kirpa Gudhka
3 years ago
A very powerful and fun short course to help build the gratitude habit. The course focused on embedding the value of gratitude and how to build the habit, using stories, facts, and interactive exe...
Priti Shah
Priti Shah
3 years ago
Really thought provoking and helpful talk and advice. The presentation was well researched with additional resources for further information. It covered the topic in a logical and easy to understan...
Pramit Shah
Pramit Shah
3 years ago
Inspiring and informative
Aashni Maroo
Aashni Maroo
1 year ago
I’ve been familiar with Happy Life Habits for some time, and the 30 day gratitude challenge came at a fantastic time for me. I had been noticing that my mindset was becoming repetitive and negativ...
Hershal Shah
Hershal Shah
2 years ago
30 day gratitude and journal habit immersion course. I found this course an excellent stepping stone into the practice of daily g rea to tide journaling and developing a habit. The initial call he...
Alpen Shah
Alpen Shah
3 years ago
Avni Doshi
Avni Doshi
3 years ago
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Shaileen Shah founder of Happy Life Habits speaks about the impact on his mental health whilst working in the Finance / Tech industry and why he has turned to a role of helping people unlock habits that will provide them with more happiness.